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  1. A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
  2. A pernicious, evil influence or agent.

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A virulent contagious epidemic or infectious epidemic disease.

 
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IN BRIEF: A deadly disease; plague. Also: Something evil in effect; poison.

pronunciation Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. — Percy Shelley (1792-1822)

 
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A pestilence is any virulent and highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. The word can also be used about parasites causing large scale sickness and death, such as Guinea worm.

Originally the word referred to the bubonic plague, which is called pestis in Latin.

It can also refer to:

In music

In comics

  • Pestilence (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain character in Alpha Flight
  • Pestilence (DC Comics), a DC Comics character from 52

In other

  • World of Warcraft,The class death knight gets a skill called Pestilence that spreads diseases among units around the unit it was used on.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - pest, pestilens

Nederlands (Dutch)
plaag, verderfelijkheid

Français (French)
n. - peste (littér)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Seuche, Pest

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (θανατηφόρος) λοιμός, λοιμώδης νόσος, πανούκλα

Italiano (Italian)
flagello, pestilenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pestilência (f)

Русский (Russian)
мор, бедствие

Español (Spanish)
n. - plaga, azote, flagelo, pestilencia, peste

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pest, farsot

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
瘟疫

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 瘟疫

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 페스트, 흑사병, 해독

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 悪疫, 疫病

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) وباء, طاعون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מגיפה (קטלנית), דלקת המפשעה‬

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